D.C. Current

Getting U.S. Natural Gas to Europe

A free-trade agreement is the best bet for giving the EU access to U.S. liquefied natural gas.

There has been considerable bombast on this side of the Atlantic about turning the U.S. into Europe's "arsenal of energy" to loosen malicious Russia's control of the Continent's all-important natural-gas supplies. Heck, I've occasionally joined the noisy crowd urging President Barack Obama to use his fountain pen to remove bureaucratic barriers and increase liquefied natural-gas exports to our European allies. Their money would help reverse our balance-of-trade deficit, for one thing. But the Europeans can open our energy spigots faster than either Congress or the administration, whose seemingly intractable...